epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-30 | Author:Thor Heyerdahl [Heyerdahl, Thor]

Hold on, Haugland! If the intervals between the waves were too short, water often came on board from astern, and the helmsman had a hard job to prevent himself from ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-06 | Author:Max Hardberger [Hardberger, Max]

The next morning I went to see Willem Bik at Belgisch Scheepssloperij. He’d delivered the Deletion Certificate to the ship a week earlier, and I hadn’t seen him since. As ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-08-15 | Author:Rolf Potts

VAGABONDING VOICES I go to places within a country for the most ridiculous reasons - it may just have an interesting name or be close to a mountain with an ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2002-12-24 | Author:Rolf Potts

BARGAINING Outside of the industrialized world, fixed prices are used primarily in restaurants and on buses. Nearly every other product and service on the planet (from hotels to souvenirs to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-05-12 | Author:Redmond O'Hanlon

SOMEONE TURNED the light on; Sean had turned the light on: “Up ye get, boys! Ye’ve had a whole eight hours! And the storm’s gone—there’s yer heavy swell up there ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Paul Theroux

Happy Little Llanelli LLANELLI HAD LOOKED PROMISING ON THE MAP. IT WAS IN the southwest corner of Dyfed, on the estuary of the Loughor River. I walked from the station ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Conor Grennan

Part IV INTO THE MOUNTAINS November 2006-December 2006 Five Farid and I both lived in Kathmandu now. I had my apartment, and Farid had taken a small room—a former pantry, ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2003-06-15 | Author:Brian Haig

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO PUT TWO AND TWOtogether and we had a king-size problem. Those transcripted telephone taps Imelda was slogging through no doubt proved that Bill Morrison had a dick instead ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Raban

In open water now, I killed the engine, unfurled the genoa, and let the boat coast quietly on the breeze while I tried to raise a marine operator on the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-12 | Author:Colin Thubron

Chapter 8 Tashkent A familiar Soviet gloom permeated Samarkand’s railway station. Its gangways clanged to the trudge of labourers, and the air stank with diesel and steam spurting from vents ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-01 | Author:David Cordingly

9 Welcome to Nassau At 4 p.m. on 25 July 1718 the lookouts on HMS Rose sighted the eastern end of the island of New Providence. Captain Whitney had been ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-02 | Author:Rosie Garthwaite

/EAT LOCAL This book is not about extreme survival. It is about survival in unfamiliar and difficult surroundings. Survival against the odds, but mainly against man rather than nature. And ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Pico Iyer

And so, in time, I came to settle into the rhythms of this silent country, to come to know its patterns so well that the days began to pick up ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:Steven Callahan

The Tupperware box is twice as effective as a rain collector when I rig it up on top of the raft. The bridle that secures it to Ducky's stern can ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Bob Friel

ONE OF THE PEOPLE Colt kept in touch with while he was on the lam was Josh, who remained behind the fence at Green Hill. “He started calling here, asking ...